An exhibition of two extremes: the gun as a weapon designed to threaten, defend, maim, or kill; the flower, structured with both female and male organs and alluringly coloured, shaped and scented to ensure its ongoing pollination. As imagery, both have been deployed within eX de Medici’s luscious watercolour paintings and Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series, inviting us to consider the tensions and the surprising connections between them – the beautiful flower not always what it seems, the gun seducing and controlling without firing a shot.
eX de Medici, Elizabeth x Han Solo (Shoot to Kill), 2021, watercolour on paper. Private Collection. Photograph: RDLI. Courtesy the artist, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney/Melbourne and Canberra Museum and Gallery, Australian Capital Territory
Canberra Museum and Gallery
21 October 2023 to 31 March 2024
Australian Capital Territory
